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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dougmander" data-source="post: 2734331" data-attributes="member: 14375">I love interactive fiction games! I've played several of the Zork games, and sampled some of the other old InfoCom games, like Leather Goddesses of Phobos, which came with a scratch-and-sniff card keyed to particular moments in the game. Since that time, the programming languages and word banks have become much better, and the trend has strayed away from fantasy-based adventures to mysteries and pure logic puzzles. There isn't a paying market for them anymore, but the IF community is alive and well, writing and sharing games among its members.The premiere site for interactive fiction is <a href="http://www.brasslantern.org" target="_blank">brasslantern.org</a>. It includes some great advice about adventure design that is useful for pen-and-paper RPG designers too, but it also has tons of links to IF programming resources, free games, reviews, and contests.I have done a bit of programming in ALAN (AdventureLANguage), which is available for free on the web, along with several other IF languages. Creating an IF adventure is incredibly time-consuming, and for me, addictive. I wrote a short adventure called Mad Robot Lab for a class a took a few years ago, and I have a much larger, unfinished adventure called Road Trip.</blockquote>